Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751340AbZLBFa6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:30:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751080AbZLBFa6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:30:58 -0500 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:46757 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055AbZLBFa5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:30:57 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: davidjon@xenontk.org Subject: Re: OOM kernel behaviour Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Miles , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi In-Reply-To: <4B15FA04.2020206@xenontk.org> References: <20091202132026.5C55.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <4B15FA04.2020206@xenontk.org> Message-Id: <20091202142900.5C64.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:31:00 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 23 > On 12/02/2009 09:59 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Proprietary module is loaded. > > That's the Broadcom wireless wl driver. It isn't causing the problem. > > > > > Probably, some program in your system leaked memory. > > > > Is there some way to find out? I tried to analyse top and ps output > but there isn't anything that stands out. just idea. /proc/{pid}/smaps show what file is swapped out. usually, leaked page is swapped because nobody touched it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/